Institutional investors are widening crypto security checks beyond smart contract audits as operational failures become a larger source of losses.
Summary
- Institutions increasingly demand continuous monitoring as audits fail to capture key, signer and infrastructure risks.
- Compromised keys, signers and infrastructure caused 88.3% of roughly $764 million stolen during Q2 2026.
- Only 4% of tracked projects combined audits, active bug bounties and third-party monitoring controls together.
Hacken’s Q2 2026 Security & Compliance Report said traditional trust markers, including previous audits and operating history, did not reliably show which projects would avoid an…
